Arts & Entertainment SF Rapper Andre Nickatina Creates Sneaker Line with Local Clothing Designer “Deezoe the Clothing Coach” Andre Nickatina’s new line of Italian-made sneakers dubbed ‘Killer Whales’ is a collaboration with local clothing designer Magdy Kotb, also known as Deezoe the Clothing Coach. Kotb is the grandson of a
SF News Contra Costa County is Getting an ‘Office of Racial Equity and Social Justice’ Contra Costa County supervisors argue that systemic racism is a COVID-19 superspreader too, and approved a new social justice office that will not initially involve taxpayer dollars.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Chef Tanya Holland Lands TV Show On Oprah's Channel, Premiering This Weekend Brown Sugar Kitchen chef-owner and one-time Top Chef contestant Tanya Holland is returning to television this week with her own show on Oprah Winfrey's OWN network, 'Tanya's Kitchen Table.'
SF Politics Prop 15 Goes Down By Narrow Margin as CA Voters Are Reluctant to Tax Businesses In a Pandemic One progressive measure among a slew of California ballot propositions this election might have stood more of a chance had we not been in the middle of a pandemic-triggered recession.
SF Politics New Ordinance Will Require SFO Employers to Provide Healthcare to More Workers SF's Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a new ordinance requiring many employers with workers at SFO — including catering workers, cabin cleaners, and baggage handlers — to pay for healthcare family plans for those workers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurants Face Grim Winter With No Indoor Seats; Some Say City Should Make Exceptions For Those Being Extra-Safe Tuesday's announcement shutting down indoor dining in San Francisco did not come as a complete surprise to some chefs — and it confirmed fears that many had about jumping on the bandwagon and rehiring staff when indoor dining first began at limited capacity six weeks ago.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland Approves Settlement In Final Ghost Ship Lawsuit Bay Area transit officials are hoping for bailout funds from the Biden Administration, the SF Unified School District is planning for in-person classes starting in late January, and Oakland's City Council just approved a $399K settlement for the last Ghost Ship-related lawsuit.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Study Confirms That Crowded Indoor Spaces Spread COVID Scott Wiener wants to legalize psychedelics, another Marin County school has stopped in-person classes due to kids partying, and Chief Justice John Roberts isn't having it with Republicans' challenges to Obamacare.
SF News Four Years Into Van Ness Bus Lane Project, Red Concrete Gets Poured for Lanes SF residents are mostly confused, but also royally annoyed and angered, that the SFMTA's seemingly straightforward project to add bus rapid-transit lanes down the center of Van Ness Avenue has somehow taken four years.
SF Politics SF Offices of Law Firm Jones Day Targeted With Protest As Lawyers Continue to Press Trump's Baseless Election Challenges If you want to know what enablers of an autocrat look like in the years before a country a plunges into autocracy, look no further than spineless Republicans this week, and law firm Jones Day, which has an SF office.
Arts & Entertainment Restored Video Brings 1930s Market Street to Life, In Full HD and Color Another one of those “Trip Down Market Street” videos, this one from the 1930s, pops with color and is upscaled to very realistic high definition.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Shuts Down Indoor Dining as Cases Spike; Contra Costa County Returns to Red Tier SF Mayor London Breed and Public Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax did what they said multiple times this year that they didn't want to have to do, which is roll back the reopening of businesses after already opening them.
SF News Oakland Homicide Count Hits 100 Following Another Violent Weekend There were five violent deaths in Oakland between Saturday and Monday, including four fatal shootings, bringing the city's total for the year to 100 — putting it on track to match or exceed homicide numbers not seen in a decade.
SF News Cold Snap Brings Overnight Lows Below Freezing to Much of Bay Area Everyone around the Bay woke up to fairly frigid temps Tuesday morning, and this just a week after the region experienced an extended warm spell and a record-hot and dry October.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Banksy Mural Heavily Tagged in the Mission Two men are dead in a murder-suicide over a love triangle in San Mateo, the Golden Gate Bridge District is in major financial trouble, and a tagger has basically ruined a Banksy mural in the Mission.
SF News Day Around the Bay: UCSF Expert Says Pandemic Precautions Likely Needed Until Summer Despite positive vaccine news we're probably still wearing masks and being distanced until next summer, says UCSF's Dr. Bob Wachter; a Menlo Park school official has resigned after his wife's racist tweets about Kamala Harris; and now Ben Carson has COVID.
Arts & Entertainment Longtime 'Forum' Host on KQED, Michael Krasny, Announces Retirement One of the most consistent voices in the Bay Area radio sphere of the last three decades, Michael Krasny, has just announced that he will relinquish the program he hosts and retire in February.
SF Politics Kim Guilfoyle Reportedly Offered Trump Donors Lap Dances, Hot Tub Parties How big is Kimberly Guilfoyle’s unfolding sex-and-unprofessionalism scandal? GOP donors were apparently offered lap dances and Kimmy G hot tub parties for campaign contributions.
SF Politics London Breed Is On Short List To Take Kamala's Senate Seat It's an old joke in politics: "Every time you make an appointment, you make 20 enemies and one ingrate." And that's what Newsom is facing.
SF Politics Moms 4 Housing Organizer Wins Oakland City Council Seat, Beating Incumbent The woman who's credited with being the mastermind behind last fall's Moms 4 Housing protest in West Oakland, Carroll Fife, has unseated incumbent City Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney, marking a shift toward a more progressive electorate in parts of Oakland.
SF News Pandemic Updates: Hospitalizations Return to Mid-September Levels; Santa Clara County Warns of Surge COVID hospitalizations are once again on the rise across the Bay Area, with clear upticks visible in the East Bay and in Santa Clara County as we big this first post-election week.
SF News Biden Names Three UCSF Docs to Pandemic Task Force The Biden Administration is beginning to take shape already, and the president-elect has said he wants to make tackling the COVID-19 pandemic his number-one priority.
SF Politics Connie Chan and Myrna Melgar Join SF Board of Supervisors Representing Districts 1 and 7 With a narrow ranked-choice victory declared Sunday for incoming District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has two new faces representing the Westside beginning in the new year.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Stocks Soar On Vaccine News, Biden Victory Lots of the Bay Area saw wind and even hail yesterday, Oakland saw three fatal shootings in less than 12 hours, and Bay Area Republicans admit that Trump's legal challenges to the election are likely empty and just for show.
SF News Baby Raccoon Rescued by San Francisco Firefighters, Named 'Freedom' In what's proven to be a wild past few days for Bay Area animal rescues, San Francisco firefighters safely removed a small trash panda that was trapped in a tree Saturday night; the perpetually tired-looking mammal has since been named "Freedom."
